. Another, having
the ministry in prospect, was a teacher in the new training-school
at Tocat, under Mr. Van Lennep. A similar school existed at Aintab.

The accession of missionaries from 1855 to 1860 was as follows: In
1855, Orson P. Allen; in 1856, George A. Pollard, Tillman C.
Trowbridge, and Misses Mary E. Tenney and Sarah E. West; in 1857,
Crosby H. Wheeler, Charles F. Morse, Oliver W. Winchester, Jackson
G. Coffing, George H. White, and Julius Y. Leonard; in 1858,
Theodore Byington, George Washburn, and William Hutchinson; and
Herman N. Barnum, who, being at Constantinople as a traveller, made
an offer of his services, which was accepted in this year; in 1859,
William W. Meriam, Joseph K. Greene, James F. Clarke, George F.
Herrick, and Henry S. West, M. D., and Miss Myra A. Proctor; in
1860, Alvan B. Goodale, M. D., William F. Arms, Zenas Goss, William
W. Livingston, and Lysander T. Burbank. Messrs. Washburn,
Trowbridge, Pettibone, Barnum, Herrick, and Goss came to the mission
unmarried; Mr. Washburn afterwards married a daughter of Dr. Hamlin,
Mr. Barnum a daughter of Dr. Goodell, and Mr. Trowbridge a daughter
of Dr. Riggs.

Mr. Everett, a devoted servant of Christ, was called to his rest on
the 5th of March, 1856, after a sickness of a few days. His orphan
children returned to the United States in charge of Miss Haynes, the
sister of their mother. Messrs. Isaac G. Bliss and Edwin Goodell, in
consequence of the failure of health, were released from their
connection with the Board. The former afterwards recovered his
health, and returned to Turkey as agent of the American Bible
Society, in which capacity he has rendered very valuable service.
Antioch and Aleppo were transferred from the Syrian to the Armenian
Mission. At Erzroom the war drove away, not only the church-members,
but most of those who were interested in the truth. Mr. Richardson
removed to Arabkir to supply the place of Mr. Clark, who had been
called to the seminary at Bebek; left without a teacher by the death
of Mr. Everett and the temporary absence of Dr. Hamlin. At Marash,
in consequence of the war and the proximity of the rough
mountaineers of Zeitoon, the missionaries were at one time in no
small danger.

The beheading of a young Armenian, who had rashly declared himself a
Mohammedan, and then repented of his rashness, and the consequent
successful efforts of Sir Stratford Canning, in procuring a pledge
from the Sultan that no person shou